Too hot for comfort
It was one of the dreariest Queen’s speech opening sessions I have witnessed, not least because the Government has nothing fresh to say. If there was a subdued atmosphere it was in part because there was such an unusually high temperature in the Chamber. I fear that eyelids were heavy,
It particularly sprang in to life when David Cameron intervened on Gordon Brown about when he decided to make the Budget announcement on inheritance taxes and whether the polls influenced his decision to abandon the General Election. The whole atmosphere changed.
Poor old Gordon, fleet footed he isn’t, angry and leaden he is, and not exactly Prime Ministerial.